Drug for Killing Acid-Fast (Red) Bacillus

ABSTRACT

Disclosed is a drug for killing acid-fast (red)  bacillus  and use thereof. The drug, using fuchsin as active ingredient, can effectively kill acid-fast  bacillus  and remove  mycobacterium tuberculosis  and leprosy  bacillus  in human body.

BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

1. Field of Invention

The present invention relates to medical technology, and more particularly related to using the raw materials for chemical testing or chemical engineering—basic fuchsine, as the key active ingredient and processing with traditional Chinese medicine and food article to manufacture a drug to cure tuberculosis and leprosy—a drug to kill acid-fast bacilli (red stain).

2. Description of Related Arts

Tuberculosis is a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a pathogen which causes infection inside the cell. Mycobacterium tuberculosis can adapt to acidic environment, is resistance against phagosomes of macrophages for a long period of time and can escape against the acidification of environment such that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can survive inside the body for an extended long period of time. Therefore, tuberculosis is a persistent and chronic infectious disease. Mycobacterium tuberculosis enters into the body from the respiratory tract, and through the blood stream, it spreads and bleeds in different organs, or even into the bone or lymph nodes. At present, the most common disease being caused is pulmonary tuberculosis, which is airborne and can be widely spread and impose great health hazards. Tuberculosis can be latent, carriers may have no obvious symptoms and therefore is hard to prevent. It is a big challenge and a long lasting health hazard to human.

Because of the emergence of resistant strains and the application of immunosuppression agents, the tuberculosis outbreak has worsen suddenly at worldwide level. According to WHO statistics, about one third of the world's population is infected by M. tuberculosis, and in some developing countries, the TB carriers in adults can reach 80% of which 5-8% TB carriers can develop into active TB disease.

At present, about eight million new cases of TB occur every year at worldwide level and causes the death of about three million people. In China, two hundred and fifty thousand people are died of TB every year, which is twice as the total number of death caused by transmissible diseases of all kinds. According, TB is a real worldwide health hazards to human.

M. tuberculosis enters into human body through the respiratory tract, survives and replicates inside the alveolar macrophages, then further spreads to proximal unactivated alveoli to form a Ghon focus. During the cell mediated immune response, M. Tuberculosis grows inside the macrophages and tubercles are formed of which the center of the tubercle is characterized by “caseation necrosis”, that the tubercles are capable of restricting the multiplication of M Tuberculosis. For the majority of carriers of M. tuberculosis, the M. tuberculosis and its host are in a state of mutually coexistence, that the M. tuberculosis is surrounded by fiber inside the cheesy necrotic lesion and cannot undergo multiplication. However, when the human immune system is damaged and the human body is weakened, the restricted M. tuberculosis will be re-activated and replicate, a large number of M. tuberculosis will be released from the liquefied tubercles and spread throughout the human body. These patients with primary or secondary infection require drug treatment. The conventional first line drugs includes: 1. isoniazid, 2. rifampin, 3. streptomycin 4. pyrazinamide 5. ethambutol.

All these drugs have serious toxic side effect (For example, isoniazid and rifampin can easily cause elevated serum alanine aminotransferase, hepatomegaly, jaundice, nausea, vomiting, streptomycin can cause auditory nerve damage, ethambutol can caused optic nerve damage). In additional, during the treatment process, these drugs do not kill the bacteria and allow the bacteria to remain inside the body while only inhibiting its growth. The therapeutic effect is a negative result for sputum Mycobacterium tuberculosis (cannot detect acid-fast bacilli), that the bacteria is surrounded and hidden inside the human body. Once the body immune system is weak or is infected by an influenza, the bacteria will be activated and grow again, which is a painful process. The only treatment, again, is the drug treatment. Since the drug treatment may cause toxic side effect to the patients and causes damage to liver, kidney, nervous system, gastrointestinal and hematopoietic organ, the side effect may include extremely abnormal level of aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, urea, creatinine, urea nitrogen and etc. In some cases, hematuria may occur and the practitioner has to switch to liver and kidney treatment from TB treatment. Many TB patients cannot recover from TB but a great damage to liver and kidney is caused.

Leprosy:

Mycobacterium leprae is the pathogen which causes leprosy. The difference between this bacteria and other mycobacteria is that this bacteria cannot be cultured in artificial culture base. Therefore, the diagnosis of leprosy can only be relied on smear examination of acid-fast stain.

The common characteristics of mycobacterium leprae and mycobacterium tuberculosis are difficult to stain and resistance to decolorization by acid and alcohol after accepting a stain, therefore they are also referred to as acid-fast bacilli. Both of them do not have flagella, spore and capsule, and are Gram (G) positive bacilli (Red stain after acid-fast staining (+)).

In taxonomy, both Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis are classified under the class Actinobacteria, the order Actinomycetales and the branch Mycobacterium. The differences between Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis are summarized in Table 1:

TABLE 1 Gram Acid- Infection Growth Infection In vitro stain Fast Name Method Temp. site cultivation Transmission (G⁺) Stain Mycobacterium Inside 37° C. Internal Successful Air Positive Positive tuberculosis phagocyte organs (Red) Mycobacterium Inside 28° C. Body Un- Air Positive Positive leprae phagocyte Surface successful Contacts (Red) (Skin)

At present, the drugs for Mycobacterium leprae are basically the same as the drugs for Mycobacterium tuberculosis except that the dosage for Mycobacterium leprae is much higher and the treatment course is longer. The commonly used drugs includes rifampin, chlorophenol diazoxide, sulfamide and etc., which are highly toxic drugs and may cause serious damage to liver, kidney, nervous system, gastrointestinal and hematopoietic organ.

Basic Fuchsine (also known as: new fuchsine, fuchsine salt, rosaniline hydrochloride):

1. Basic use of basic fuchsine

Basic fuchsine is the strongest nuclear stain which can stain particles of viscoelastic tissue and fuchsinophilic substances, and is a nuclear stain for central nervous system. In bacteriology, it is used to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In analytical chemistry, it is used to prepare Schiff's reagent for aldehydes testing. In bromate titration, it is used as an redox indicator. It is also used for dyeing cotton, linen, artificial fibers, leather, feathers, fat and etc. as well as for manufacture of color precipitates.

2. Sources of Preparation

In the presence of iron and zinc chloride, react hydrochlorides of aniline, o-toluidine and p-toluidine with nitrobenzene for condensation, then separate by acid-base extraction and obtain by crystallization.

3. Chemical structure

Description of Structure:

For use as a stain for bacteria, the majority of synthetic substances are organic compounds containing a benzene ring (Basic fuchsine is one of the kind) in which a chromophore group and an auxochrome group are provided on the benzene ring. The chromophore group includes a nitro group (—NO2) and an azo group (—N═N—), while the auxochrome group includes a hydroxyl (—OH) and an amino group (—NH2). The chromophore group is responsible for the color of a compound and a benzene-containing compound with a chromophore group is called a chromogen. This type of compounds is not a dye because it does not have any affinity to the dying object and is easily separated from the dying object. Therefore, the auxochrome group is required. The auxochrome group does not contribute any color to the dyeing object but has the ability of dissociation to provide ionic character to a compound. After dissociation, the dye materials can bind to the dyeing object and provide color to the dyeing object.

The auxochrome group may be a basic group (such as a —NH2 group) or an acid group (such as a —OH group). The more the —NH2 group or the —OH group, the stronger is the basicity or acidity. If the number of each group is one, then the basic group will dominate. Accordingly, the pH of the dye can be determined by the nature of the auxochrome group. The basic fuchsine has no —OH group in its structure, and therefore is a basic dye.

Because organic dye is an organic acid or base with color which is difficult to dissolve in water and is soluble in organic solvent, usually they are made into salt in order to make them easier to dissolve in water. Therefore, basic fuchsine is also called fuchsine salt. In conclusion, the only difference between the above two formulae is just one auxochrome group (CH₂), which is a substance existed in the form of two structures in solution.

Principle of Acid-Fast Bacilli Stain

Acid-fast bacilli contains mycolic acid. Basic Fuchsine (C₂₀H₂₀N₃Cl or C₁₉H₁₈N₃Cl) has a higher solubility in lipids than in hydrochloric acid and alcohol. Therefore, both can be combined strongly and is not easily decolorized by hydrochloric acid or alcohol. In addition, maintaining the integrity of the surface cell structure during the dyeing process is an important factor for maintaining its acid resistance. It is because a complete cell wall can prevent the overflow of lipids which is stained by basic fuchsine. Therefore, the red stain of the acid-fast bacilli can be maintained even after bleaching. Non acid-fast bacilli does not contain mycolic acid, cannot resist decoloring by hydrochloric acid or alcohol and therefore can be re-stained by methylene blue into blue color.

At present, the mechanism of bacteria stain is not completely clear. According to the available evidence, the dyeing process is neither purely physical nor purely chemical, but rather a combination of both.

According to the characteristics of acid-fast bacilli, acid-fast staining is mainly used in testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae.

4. Molecular formula and molecular weight

C₂₀H₂₀N₃CL=337.84  Formula I:

C₁₉H₁₈N₃CL=323.82  Formula II:

5. Properties: green metallic luster crystal, soluble in ethanol and amyl alcohol, slightly soluble in water, red in color in aqueous solution, insoluble in ether.

SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

An object of the present invention is to provide a drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus, that the drug can effectively killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus, completely eliminate the Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium Leprae inside human body and therefore is a cure for tuberculosis and leprosy.

In particular, the present invention provides a drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus, characterized in that, the drug comprises basic fuchsine as the active ingredient.

According to the drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus of the present invention, characterized in that, the drug comprises an excipient or an auxiliary ingredient which is pharmaceutically acceptable to the active ingredient basic fuchsine. Preferably, the excipient or the auxiliary ingredient is selected from ground rice, wheat germ or cereal. In particular, ground rice is mostly preferred. When ground rice is selected as the excipient, the drug composition by percentage weight is preferably: basic fuchsine 55-66%, ground rice 35-45%.

Nutrient content of ground rice: rich in fiber, great quantity of VB, VE vitamins and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and etc., commonly known as intestinal scavenger, improve gastrointestinal function, increase intestinal peristalsis, remove intestinal toxicity, timely discharge the intestinal garbage outside the body, provide relieve to constipation, promote absorption of nutrients, promote blood circulation, improve immunity, enhance physical fitness. Also, the dietary fiber which is rich in ground rice can combine to the cholesterol in the bile and promote the discharge of cholesterol, and provide cleansing effect to the blood and lipid regulation effect.

Wheat germ: concentrated source of several essential nutrients for life, including fat, protein, a variety of enzymes, vitamins, minerals and etc. The content of vitamin B1 is 3.5 times of our daily needs. Also contain a lot of vitamin E and linoleic fatty acid, and vitamin B6, which is not commonly found in other food.

According to the drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus of the present invention, characterized in that, the drug is prepared into oral preparation, injectable preparation or external use preparation.

According to the drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus of the present invention, characterized in that, the drug is prepared into tablets, oral solution, capsules, injection solution, ointments, tinctures, powders, granules, suppositories, creams, transdermal preparations or dietary supplements.

According to the present invention, the use of basic fuchsine for preparation of drug to inhibit or kill acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus and for the preparation of drug to treat tuberculosis and/or leprosy are provided.

The increase in pH in vivo is beneficial to removal of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium Leprae:

The optimum pH of human body is between 7.35-7.45. This body condition has strongest immunity and highest enzymes activity level. The body fluids are weakly alkaline and is good for metabolism.

When the human body is infected by M. Tuberculosis, the pH of human body is decreased and the body becomes an acidic body (also called rancid body) because the bacteria's pH is between about 2-5 and hence the immunity is lowered. Since the pH value can directly affect the enzymatic activity of human body and hinder the immune response, while the composition of TB is complicated and its toxicity is related to the lipid content in the bacteria. For example, sulfolipids can inhibit the integration of lysosomes inside macrophage with phagosome. Accordingly, it is impossible to remove the bacteria from the human body.

When a patient object takes basic fuchsine, the pH of his body fluid (the urine being discharged) has a significantly increased trend. Therefore, the infected body, which is weakly acidic, is recovered to become weakly basic and this is beneficial to increasing the body's immunity such that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can be inhibited or removed. Because the integration of lysosomes inside macrophage with phagosome cannot be prevented, the bacteria can be removed. The changes in urine pH after taking basic fuchsine is illustrated in Table 2 and FIG. 1:

TABLE 2 Change of urine pH with time of Patient object (vegetarian) Time Patent's urine pH value Av- (h) Li Hu Hou Zhang Qi Hu Yan Wu Cao erage Before 5.5 6 6.5 6 5.5 6 6.5 6 6 6 drug After 6 6.5 7 6.5 6 6.5 7 6.5 6.5 6.5 drug 1 h After 6.5 7 7.5 7 6.5 7 7.5 7 7 7 drug 2 h After 6 6.5 7 6.5 6 6.5 7 6.5 6.5 6.5 drug 3 h After 6 6.5 7 6.5 6 6.5 7 6.5 6.5 6.5 drug 4 h After 5.5 6 6.5 6 5.5 6 6.5 6 6 6 drug 5 h After 5.5 6 6.5 6 5.5 6 6.5 6 6 6 drug 6 h

Remarks: The urine pH value reached the peak value at 2-3 hours after taking drug, and the peak period can sustain for 3-4 hours, then return to normal at 5-6 hours after taking drug.

According to our studies, basic fuchsine can be used in preparation of drug for tuberculosis and leprosy. At present, we discovered that the use of basic fuchsine to treat tuberculosis is better than the existing treatment. The advantages are illustrated as follows:

(1) Not toxic: no liver or kidney damages is observed in patients taking drug for more than two years

(2) Easily available and advantageous in promotion

(3) Low cost, relieve financial burden to individual or nation

(4) Thorough treatment: for patients who are recovered, no single occurrence of recurrence and all TB symptoms are disappeared.

(5) No adverse reactions: during the course of treatment, no side effect is observed in all cases

(6) Treatment convenience: oral application is sufficient, no hospitalization is required.

(7) The drug will not remain inside the body while the body fluid can improve transiently. The change of urine pH after drug is illustrated in Table 2.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is the curve showing the changes of urine pH of patients with time after taking drug.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

In this embodiment, the basic fuchsine is purchased from Tianjin Ju Hua Chemical Company Limited.

Embodiment 1 Toxicity Test of Basic Fuchsine

Materials: 24 white guinea pigs, purchased from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, regular feeding; Basic fuchsine, from Tianjin Ju Hua Chemical Company Limited.

Matching and grouping of experimental animals: randomly divided into 4 groups (each group includes 6 counts, equal number of male and female), namely, control, high, medium, low fuchsine dosage group.

Method of administration: For each guinea pig, administered one time per day at a fixed time in the morning, the dosage for high, medium, low fuchsine dosage group are 8 mg/kg body weight/d, 6 mg/kg body weight/d, and 4 mg/kg body weight/d respectively; the drug administration period is 21 days, observe 3˜4 times per day, observe the guinea pig by spirit condition, appetite, gloss level of skin and hairs, physical condition, alertness and ability to escape. No changes is observed after 21 days.

Embodiment 2

According to the principle of in vitro staining to M. tuberculosis and M. leprae (see acid-fast bacilli staining principle), it is learned that basic fuchsine has a special affinity to M. tuberculosis and M. leprae and is easily stained.

After taking basic fuchsine, the basic fuchsine activity over time can be observed through the blood phenomenon at different times. The fuchsine is absorbed into the bloodstream in a dissolved state, then through the process of blood cells, coloring or combination opportunity is provided to the M. tuberculosis and M. leprae inside the phagocytes, while the pH of body fluid is increased and the growing environment of the bacteria is destroyed, the bacteria is stained and the immune recognition ability is increased, then the activity of immune system is promoted to fully utilized. Accordingly, the basicity and the staining effect on bacteria of fuchsine are the key to remove or kill the bacteria.

Blood Observation

I. Observation object

1. Healthy individual as normal subject for observation

2. Patient recovered from the disease who volunteer to testing subject as volunteer subject

II. Instrument:

Binocular microscope xsp-12G model

Manufacturer: Jiang Optical Instrument Main Factory

III. Reagents

Wright-Giemsa stain solution (available in the market)

Phosphate buffer (available in the market)

IV. Method of Operation

1. Obtain peripheral blood smear from normal subject and volunteer subject (normal control blood film, standby use)

2. Obtain peripheral blood smear from volunteer subject at different time after taking fuchsine (oral fuchsine blood film, standby use)

3. After the last blood sampling is complete, carrying staining together with the blood film before taking fuchsine orally of volunteer subject and the peripheral blood film of normal subject

V. observe oral fuchsine blood film under microscope with 100× objective lens (oil immersion) and 12.5× eyepiece, real object is viewed under magnification at 1250 times and the results are shown in Table 3.

TABLE 3 Results of observation Drug taking time (h) The status of Stain absorption by blood 0.5 Stain is cluster outside the cell in dissolved form, occasionally inside the cell, uneven distribution 1 Stain existed inside and outside the cell in dissolved form, such as in thick cloudy state, occurrence is more inside the cell than outside the cell 2 Uniform stain overflowed from the cell to outside is commonly seen, such as cloud mist state 4 Traces of stain is seen occasionally from the inside edge of cell 6 Just like the control normal blood film, no stain is observed

Results of Observation:

1. After taking fuchsine, the fuchsine is absorbed through the body into the blood, then entered into the cell through the cell membrane, then remained inside the cell for about 2-4 hours.

2. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the Mycobacterium Leprae inside the phagocytes have the opportunities to combine to fuchsine, which is then stained or eliminated.

Embodiment 3 Drug Susceptibility Testing

(I) Drug: Basic Fuchsine

(II) Culture Method: Lowenstein-Jensen medium (Improved method)

(III) Composition of Lowenstein-Jensen medium:

KH2PO4: 2.4 g; MgSO4.7H2O 0.24 g; magnesium citrate: 0.6 g; asparagine: 3.6 g; glycerin: 12 ml; distilled water: 600 ml; potato starch: 30 g; fresh whole egg liquid: 1000 ml; 2% malachite green solution: 20 ml

(IV) Instrument

1. Digital Biochemical Incubator (Huangshi City Hengfeng Medical Devices Company Limited): 36° C. (special setting)

2. Biological safety cabinet: Biobase Bioteoh

Model specifications: BSC-1500IZB2-X

Manufacturer: Jinan Xinjiuxi Biotechnology Company Limited

3. Steam Incubator: 85° C.

Manufacturer: Beijing Xinzhongdaye Daibiao Company Limited

4. Drug: 2% basic fuchsine aqueous solution: 100 ml

(V) Preparation of culture medium

Add water to KH2PO4, MgSO4.7H2O, magnesium citrate, asparagine and glycerin, dissolve through heating in a boiling water bath, then add potato starch and continue heating in water bath for 30 minutes, stir continuously to form a uniform paste. After cooling to about 60° C., add 1000 ml fresh whole egg liquid and 20 ml 2% malachite green solution, mix thoroughly and then filter by double-layered gauze, then dispensed into test tube with screw cap. 7 ml of the prepared solution is added to each test tube, then add the 2% basic fuchsine solution according to a specific proportion into the test tube (see Table 3 for the adding amount), then place the test tube into the 85% steam incubator for 90 minutes, cooling to 60° C. or below and then place the test tube inclinedly into the biological safety cabinet (also called purification station), thereby the culture medium is cooled to solidify and form an incline surface. Put 10⁻²/ml living bacilli solution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the incline surface of the culture medium. The living bacilli solution for each tube is 0.1 ml. The concentration of bacilli solution in the culture medium is 10⁻³ mg/ml. Place in Digital Biochemical Incubator to culture. After culture for 5 weeks, no bacteria growth refers to drug susceptibility, continue bacteria growth refers to drug non-susceptibility (See Table 4 for testing results).

TABLE 4 Testing results Adding amount of Drug final Tube 2% basic fuchsine dilution Time in 36 C. Testing number solution factor incubator results 1  0.7 ml 500 5 weeks Grow 2 0.525 ml 750 5 weeks Grow 3  0.35 ml 1000 5 weeks Grow

Explanation of Drug Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria Growth:

Since basic fuchsine is non-toxic, in drug susceptibility testing, place basic fuchsine into the Lowenstein-Jensen medium will only cause the changes in color but no toxicity will be caused by the culture medium, and no nutrients content of the Lowenstein-Jensen medium will be affected. Also, since the medium does not provide a somatic environment, the bacteria should grow normally in this medium. This further proves that basic fuchsine is non-toxic, and that the fuchsine itself does not have a killing effect on the acid-fast bacilli killing effect. Instead, the basic fuchsine increases the pH of body fluid and stain the bacteria to become the target, thus the immunity system is activated to remove the bacteria thoroughly. This is the greatest advantage of this drug.

If standard drug is placed inside the Lowenstein-Jensen medium, this equals to giving toxic substances to the food of the bacteria, therefore the bacteria cannot grow because of food poisoning, therefore causing to the culture result as bacteria cannot grow (drug susceptibility). In other words, standard drugs can only have inhibition effect and fail to remove the bacteria thoroughly. Also, serious side effect may be resulted and damage to human detoxification is caused.

Important characteristics of using basic fuchsine to treat Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae are summarized as follows:

1. Because basic fuchsine can increase pH of the body, causing the bacteria to lose its pH regulation effect, that unable to suppress phagocytes to secret plasmin, thus the fusion of lysosomes and phagosome will lead to the removal of bacteria.

2. Since basic fuchsine can stain the bacteria, while causing an increase in body pH, therefore the bacteria is tagged while the immunity is increased. Accordingly, the phagocytes is capable of identifying the target and has an increased engulfing ability to eliminate the bacteria.

3. Since basic fuchsine is intoxic, that its function mechanism is different from existing drug and it cannot inhibit or kill bacteria by toxicity effect, therefore during in vitro drug susceptibility, the bacteria cannot be killed and can growth normally in the culture medium due to the lack of somatic environment.

Embodiment 4 Basic Fuchsine for treatment of Tuberculosis

Dosage for patient: Capsule, 500 mg/capsule, where the weight ratio of basic fuchsine to ground rice is 3:2, each patient takes 1-2 capsule/day.

Method of administration: Every morning, before breakfast, take the capsule, three month as one treatment course, see Table 5 for patients' records, see Table 6 for treatment results.

Explanation for Patients' Records:

1. All patients were diagnosis and confirmed by standard TB hospital or TB prevention and treatment center, and all patients encountered disease recurrence after conventional standard drug treatment.

2. The patients, after conventional standard drug treatment, experienced liver and kidney damages of different level, and can no longer accept conventional standard drug.

3. Before drug treatment with basic fuchsine drug, all patients have obvious symptoms: body weakness, discomfort, fever, cough, night sweat, ascites, blood spitting, blood vomiting, etc. (skeletal TB patient experience pain, some experience amenorrhea).

4. Symptoms are significantly reduces after taking basic fuchsine for one month for majority of patients, TB symptoms are eliminated after taking basic fuchsine for three months, recovery are confirmed through X-ray after taking basic fuchsine for six months

5. Patients' blood test for liver and kidney after taking basic fuchsine shows that the blood test results are normal.

6. After taking basic fuchsine for one month, no M. tuberculosis is found in sputum (no acid-fast bacilli is found). After taking basic fuchsine for six month, the course of treatment is complete. Normal lives can be resumed physical labor activities can be done.

TABLE 5 Patients' records of TB Patients Patent Sputum Side Effect of Sex Place of Name of Acid-Fast Convention Age diagnosis disease Bacilli treatment Disease Condition Li XX Shenyang Pulmonary TB(+) Dizziness, Cough, sputum F Chest TB nausea, cannot with blood, whole 65 Hospital eat, vomiting, body weakness, very high uric low-grade fever acid test result, with increased high seriousness in the transaminase test afternoon, night result sweat Zhao XX Jilin TB Cavitary TB TB(+) Liver and kidney Whole body F Hospital damage weakness, fatigue, 38 cough, low-grade fever, face flushing, night sweat, amenorrhea Yu XX Jilin TB Secondary TB(+) Nausea, Year round hands M Prevention TB vomiting, and foot fever, 48 and dizziness, liver weakness, cough, Treatment and kidney night sweat, Center damage, elevated weight loss transaminase and uric acid Zhang XX Liaoyuan Thoracic CT Scan Dizziness, Relied on F City TB vertebrae TB(+) nausea, liver and painkiller, cannot 62 Hospital TB kidney damage, lie up and down high by herself, sharp transaminase pain when coughing Dong XX Jilin TB Infiltrate TB(+) Nausea, vomit, fever with F Hospital Pulmonary dizziness, increased 60 TB fatigue, whole seriousness in the body weakness, afternoon, night high sweat, cough, transaminase whole body weakness, fatigue Yu XX Jilin TB Pulmonary TB(+) Serious drug Cough, fever, M Hospital TB reaction, cannot night sweat, 43 eat, high weakness, fatigue, transaminase and whole body uric acid discomfort, weight loss Jiang XX Shenyang Pulmonary TB(+) Nausea, vomit, Cough, fever, M Dongling TB cannot eat, high night sweat, 26 Hospital transaminase and weakness, fatigue, uric acid whole body discomfort Wu XX Jilin TB Miliary TB TB(+) Nausea, vomit, Cough, low-grade M Hospital dizziness, weight fever with 21 loss, high increased transaminase and seriousness in the uric acid afternoon, fact rash, night sweat, weakness Yan XX Shenyang Cavitary TB TB(+) No improvement Cough, night F Chest after treatment sweat, body 22 Hospital (many times), weakness, liver and kidney aggregated flu, damage, liver and kidney hydrothorax, damage, significant lower weakness, back pain menstruation amenorrhea Wu XX Heilongjiang Neck and TB(+) Insignificant Serious cough, F Military armpit treatment result weakness, fatigue, 63 Hospital lymph nodes with relief only, enlarged neck and TB recurrence armpit lymph repeatedly, nodes, with dizziness, vomit, hardening and nausea, weakness pain is aggravate Yu XX Siping TB Pulmonary TB(+) Nausea, Cough, sputum F Hospital TB vomiting, production, 69 dizziness, liver occasional low- and kidney grade fever, damage weakness, fatigue Sun XX Siping TB Cavitary TB TB(+) dizziness Nausea, Cough, low-grade M Hospital liver and kidney fever, weakness, 32 damage, fatigue, weight weakness, night loss sweat Hou XX Siping TB Pulmonary TB(+) Nausea, anorexia, Low-grade fever, M Hospital TB increased night sweat, 60 heartbeat, whole body weakness, high weakness, cough transaminase Qi XX Shenyang Pulmonary TB(+) Nausea, Cough, low-grade F No. 2 TB TB dizziness, liver fever, weakness, 62 Hospital and kidney fatigue damage Meng XX Shenyang Pulmonary TB(+) Nausea, anorexia, Cough, easy to get M Dongling TB liver and kidney a flu, night sweat, 51 TB Hospital damage, elevated fatigue, weakness transaminase Zhou XX Fushun TB Pulmonary TB(+) Nausea, Cough, weakness, F Hospital TB increased fatigue, 77 heartbeat, liver drowsiness, easy and kidney to catch a cold damage Li XX Fushun TB Pulmonary TB(+) Headache, Cough, sputum F Hospital TB anorexia, liver production, 49 and lung weakness, night damage, high sweat, fatigue, transaminase whole body discomfort Li XX Fushun TB Tuberculosis TB(+) Nausea, Weak, fatigue, M Hospital Pleurisy headache, discomfort, low- 48 anorexia, liver grade fever, night and kidney sweat, chest pain, damage, cough terminated treatment, thoracentesis 4 times Zhang XX Zhangchun Double TB(+) Whole body Cough, low fever, F TB Hospital Miliary TB weakness, more serious in 26 nausea, anorexia, the afternoon, dizziness, liver night sweat and kidney damage Wamg XX Jilin Jiutai Double TB(+) Nausea, anorexia, Cough, blooding M TB Hospital Miliary TB, headache, liver spitting, whole 40 3 cavity in and kidney body weakness, the lung damage low-grade fever, night sweat, bedrest, weight loss

TABLE 6 Treatment results of TB Patients Patent Dosage Sex (capsule/ Drug treatment after Drug treatment after Drug treatment after Age day) 1 month 3 month 6 month Li XX 1 TB Improved (−) Resume physical TB (−) confirmed by F strength, TB symptoms X-ray, liver and 65 such as fatigue are kidney function eliminated normal Zhao XX 1 TB Improved (−) Symptoms of night TB (−) confirmed by F normal sweat, cough, weakness X-ray, liver and 38 menstruation low-grade fever are kidney function eliminated normal Yu XX 1 TB Improved (−) Resume physical TB (−) confirmed by M strength, symptoms of X-ray, liver and 48 cough night sweat and kidney function low-grade fever are normal eliminated Zhang XX 2 Pain reduced Resume physical liver and kidney F strength, pain is function normal, no 62 relieved, stop use of significant changes in painkiller X-ray Dong XX 1 Reduced symptoms Resume physical TB (−) confirmed by F of cough and others strength, TB symptoms X-ray, liver and 60 are eliminated kidney function normal Yu XX 1 Cough and night Resume physical TB (−) confirmed by M sweat disappeared, strength, symptoms of X-ray, liver and 43 Improved cough, weakness and kidney function night sweat are normal eliminated Jiang XX 1 Normal All TB symptoms are TB (−) confirmed by M transaminase eliminated X-ray, liver and 26 TB (−) kidney function normal Wu XX 1 Normal All TB symptoms are TB (−) confirmed by M transaminase eliminated, physical X-ray, liver and 21 TB (−) strength is improved kidney function normal Yan XX 1 No lower back All TB symptoms are TB (−) confirmed by F pain, normal eliminated, physical X-ray, liver and 22 menstruation, TB (−) strength is improved, kidney function ascites dissappeared normal Wu XX 1 Improved, Resume physical TB (−), neck and F softening of hard strength, all TB armpit tubercles 63 tissue symptoms are disappeared eliminated Yu XX 1 Improved TB (−) Feel body strength, TB (−) confirmed by F cough is gone, not X-ray, liver and 69 fatigue anymore, low- kidney function grade fever normal disappaeared Sun XX 1 Significantly Resume physical TB (−) confirmed by M improved TB (−) strength, weight gain, X-ray, liver and 32 all TB symptoms are kidney function eliminated normal Hou XX 1 Improved TB (−) Fatigue is gone, feel to TB (−) confirmed by M have strength, all all X-ray, liver and 60 TB symptoms are kidney function eliminated normal Qi XX 1 Improved TB (−) Resume physical TB (−) confirmed by F strength, not fatigue X-ray, liver and 62 anymore, all TB kidney function symptoms are normal eliminated Meng XX 1 Improved TB (−) Cough disappeared, TB (−) confirmed by M whole body with X-ray, liver and 51 strength again, all TB kidney function symptoms are normal eliminated Zhou XX 1 Improved TB (−) fatigue disappeared, TB (−) confirmed by F cough is gone, all TB X-ray, liver and 77 symptoms are kidney function eliminated normal Li XX 1 Improved TB (−) Feel improved physical TB (−) confirmed by F strength, fatigue and all X-ray, liver and 49 TB symptoms are kidney function eliminated normal Li XX 1 Significantly improved physical TB (−) confirmed by M improved TB (−) strength, all TB X-ray, liver and 48 symptoms are kidney function eliminated, ascites normal disappeared Zhang XX 1 Improved TB (−) Cough and all TB TB (−) confirmed by F symptoms are X-ray, liver and 26 eliminated kidney function normal Wang XX 1 Improved TB (−) all TB symptoms are TB (−) confirmed by M eliminated, feel X-ray, liver and 40 improved physical kidney function strength, weight gain normal

Embodiment 5 Basic Fuchsine for Treatment of Leprosy

I. Type of drug:

1. Oral capsule: Dosage for patient: Capsule, 500 mg/capsule, where the weight ratio of basic fuchsine to ground rice is 3:2, each patient takes 1-2 capsule/day;

2. Topical tincture, apply to ulcer surface.

II. Preparation of Basic Fuchsine Tincture:

Materials: 1. Basic fuchsine, 2. Medical alcohol (75% ethanol solution)

Preparation Process:

1. Pour 100 g basic fuchsine and 800 ml 75% ethanol into a glass beaker, then stir evenly by a glass rod.

2. Grip an alcohol cotton with forceps, light up by a lighter and place to the surface of the beaker which contains basic fuchsine and 75% ethanol, ignite the mixture, stir with the glass rod while burning until the flame is out.

3. Wait till the temperature reached 60° C., then pour the drug solution after burning into a grinding jar through a funnel.

4. Soaking the prepared tincture solution into cotton ball in an auxiliary tank.

III. Method of Use

External use: wash the ulcer surface of leprosy patients with saline, then apply the cotton ball which is prepared with basic fuchsine tincture solution, apply repeatedly and then wrap by gauze. Repeat the above steps every 3 days until the wound is healed.

Internal use: Every morning before breakfast, take 1 capsule with warm water until recovery. One treatment course is three months. See Table 7 for treatment results.

Explanation for patients' records: The subjects are patients from Shandong Tengzhou City Leprosy Village and patients from Leprosy Rehabilitation Center of Puguang Hospital in Wuchaun City, Guangdong Province.

TABLE 7 Patient's records of Leprosy Patients Condition Patent Name Years Convention before Sex of of treatment Fuchsine Treatment Treatment Age disease Ulcer method Treatment method results Remarks Du XX Leprosy More Serious Cannot Oral and After oral After M ulcers than 60 drug sleep due external treatment treatment 81 years reaction, to pain, for 7 days, for 1 increased swollen leg's month, ulcer area, and red swelling scab is bone pain calf and redness formed on disappeared, the ulcer ulcer area is area reduced Zhang Leprosy More Palpitation, Swollen Oral and After oral After XX ulcers than 40 nausea, and red external treatment treatment M years anorexia finger, for 10 days, for 1 68 sticky, swelling month, ulcer on and redness scab is feet disappeared, formed on foot ulcer the ulcer area is area, hands reduced are healed Cao XX Leprosy Few Used many Ulcer and External After half Absorbed, M ulcers decades external bleeding month, area continue 76 medication on two of ulcer is treatment but feet reduced, ineffective scab is formed at the edges Liu XX Leprosy Many Used many Ulcer on External scab formed Continuous M ulcers years external one foot use of after half monitoring 70 medication tincture month but ineffective Chen Leprosy 45 Used many Pus and External scab formed Pain XX ulcers years external pain on use of after half disappeared M medication one foot tincture month on the day 66 but of ineffective application

One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting. It will thus be seen that the objects of the present invention have been fully and effectively accomplished. It embodiments have been shown and described for the purposes of illustrating the functional and structural principles of the present invention and is subject to change without departure from such principles. Therefore, this invention includes all modifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the following claims. 

1. A drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus, characterized in that: the drug comprises basic fuchsine as the active ingredient.
 2. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 1, characterized in that: the drug comprises an excipient or an auxiliary ingredient which is pharmaceutically acceptable to the active ingredient basic fuchsine.
 3. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 1, characterized in that: the excipient or the auxiliary ingredient is selected from ground rice, wheat germ or cereal.
 4. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 3, characterized in that: the excipient or the auxiliary ingredient is ground rice.
 5. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 4, characterized in that: the drug composition by percentage weight is basic fuchsine 55-66%, ground rice 35-45%.
 6. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 1, characterized in that: the drug is prepared into oral preparation, injectable preparation or external use preparation.
 7. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 6, characterized in that: the drug is prepared into tablets, oral solution, capsules, injection solution, ointments, tinctures, powders, granules, suppositories, creams, transdermal preparations or dietary supplements.
 8. A method of use of basic fuchsine comprising the step of preparing a drug to inhibit or kill acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus by basic fuchsine.
 9. A method of use of basic fuchsine comprising the step of preparing a drug to treat tuberculosis by basic fuchsine.
 10. A method of use of basic fuchsine comprising the step of preparing a drug to treat leprosy by basic fuchsine.
 11. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 2, characterized in that: the drug is prepared into oral preparation, injectable preparation or external use preparation.
 12. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 11, characterized in that: the drug is prepared into tablets, oral solution, capsules, injection solution, ointments, tinctures, powders, granules, suppositories, creams, transdermal preparations or dietary supplements.
 13. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 3, characterized in that: the drug is prepared into oral preparation, injectable preparation or external use preparation.
 14. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 13, characterized in that: the drug is prepared into tablets, oral solution, capsules, injection solution, ointments, tinctures, powders, granules, suppositories, creams, transdermal preparations or dietary supplements.
 15. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 4, characterized in that: the drug is prepared into oral preparation, injectable preparation or external use preparation.
 16. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 15, characterized in that: the drug is prepared into tablets, oral solution, capsules, injection solution, ointments, tinctures, powders, granules, suppositories, creams, transdermal preparations or dietary supplements.
 17. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 5, characterized in that: the drug is prepared into oral preparation, injectable preparation or external use preparation.
 18. The drug for killing acid-fast (Red stain) bacillus according to claim 17, characterized in that: the drug is prepared into tablets, oral solution, capsules, injection solution, ointments, tinctures, powders, granules, suppositories, creams, transdermal preparations or dietary supplements. 